{"id":2003766,"date":"2023-08-17T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-and-fbi-subpoenaed-for-social-media-censorship-records\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T14:12:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T18:12:33","slug":"doj-and-fbi-subpoenaed-for-social-media-censorship-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-and-fbi-subpoenaed-for-social-media-censorship-records\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ and FBI subpoenaed for social media &#8216;censorship&#8217; data."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoj-and-fbi-subpoenaed-for-social-media-censorship-records%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2003766&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Subpoenas DOJ and FBI for Documents on Alleged Censorship<\/h2>\n<p>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has taken action \u200dby subpoenaing the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for\u200c documents\u2063 related to allegations of\u2064 collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">social media companies<\/a> to censor First Amendment-protected content. This includes the\u200d controversial Hunter Biden laptop story from 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2063 letters\u200d accompanying\u200c the subpoenas, obtained by the Washington \u2063Examiner, Jordan addressed \u2064Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director \u2064Christopher Wray. He emphasized that these documents are crucial\u2064 for the committee&#8217;s investigation into the extent of the Executive Branch&#8217;s involvement in coercing and colluding with companies to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-cant-solve-our-cancel-culture-problem\/\" title=\"Government Can\u2019t Solve our Cancel Culture Problem\">suppress free speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Request for Internal Documents \u2063and \u2063Communications<\/h3>\n<p>Jordan requested that both the DOJ and FBI provide \u2064all internal documents and communications regarding the moderation, suppression,\u2063 or removal of content on private platforms. He set a deadline of September 15 for the delivery\u200c of these materials.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Jordan had previously sent letters to Garland and Wray, making broad requests for records related to censorship. He\u200c referred to the Twitter Files, which uncovered various findings,\u2062 including the FBI&#8217;s engagement with Twitter (now known as X) regarding the\u2064 New York Post&#8217;s story implicating\u200c Joe Biden \u200cin his son \u200dHunter&#8217;s business dealings before the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing his dissatisfaction, Jordan noted that the DOJ and FBI had only produced a single document,\u200c which he deemed &#8220;woefully inadequate.&#8221; He pointed out that this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-and-fbi-subpoenaed-for-social-media-censorship-records\/\" title=\"DOJ and FBI subpoenaed for social media 'censorship' data.\">document omitted significant responsive material<\/a>, such as communications between the DOJ and tech companies, internal communications, and communications with other executive branch entities.<\/p>\n<h3>Legal Ruling and First Amendment Rights<\/h3>\n<p>Jordan highlighted a recent ruling in the lawsuit Missouri v. Biden, where U.S.\u200b District Judge Terry Doughty issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Biden administration to halt certain censorship-related communications with \u200csocial media companies during the ongoing lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling revealed numerous interactions between the\u2063 DOJ, FBI, and social \u2064media companies. Jordan emphasized that a federal judge had determined that these communications likely violated Americans&#8217; First Amendment rights. Despite this,\u2064 he criticized the lack of substantial response from\u2063 the DOJ \u2064and FBI to the committee&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner has reached out to the DOJ for comment on \u200cthis matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) issued subpoenas to the Department of Justice and FBI, seeking documents on allegations of collaboration with social media firms to censor First Amendment-protected content. This includes the 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story. Jordan addressed Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2003767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}